Your Headline, My Face August 22, 2013From: Mike Rowe
Re: Your Headline, My Face.
Hi Steve,
Mike Rowe here, Dirty Jobs. Thanks to the necromancers over at Google, I’ve been alerted to your most recent Question of the Day: “Are Bad Jobs Good for the Economy and the People Who Work Them?” Immediately under your headline I noticed a photo of me, taken on the Mackinac Bridge while filming ...read more...

A Talk About Ted August 17, 2013Back in 2008, I got an invite to speak at something called EG, or “The Entertainment Gathering.” The Entertainment Gathering is a conference that evolved from TED, another well-known speaker series that I had never heard of. Against my natural instincts, I wound up attending EG, and spoke for exactly 20 minutes, as instructed. I had no recollection of what ...read more...

The “Other” Side July 16, 2013These days, people get bent simply if I appear on shows they don’t like, or sit too close to people they don’t care for. What’s up with that?
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Profoundly Disconnected June 19, 2013Back in the late ’70s, a poster hung in my high school guidance counselor’s office. It was part of a college recruitment campaign called Work Smart Not Hard. In the long history of bad advice, you’d have to look pretty hard to find something dumber than this. And yet, the expression is still with us.
So…with a little creative license ...read more...